This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the ...

Florence's Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore astonished the world with its colossal dome ingeniously designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Crowning gloryThe great dome that tops the Cathedral of Santa ...

Filippo Brunelleschi designed Florence Cathedral's famed red-brick dome. Getty Images Engineers and tourists alike have long marveled at the impressive domes of the Italian Renaissance, including ...

What can modern engineering learn from an erstwhile jeweler who built the largest masonry dome in existence? The construction of the Florentine duomo by Filippo Brunelleschi has been an engineering ...